Do people perceive exactly the same message differently in the presence versus absence of information related to education titles (e.g. PhD), CV's (e.g. number of publications, laboratories of past work) or photo's? What does it tell us about those that judge these messages?
Interesting question Marcel Lambrechts
I normally will not worry about the degree and look at the content of the message. I will evaluate as to how it gives me a new perspective and/or how much it aligns with my point of view. Only when I notice the expressed view is too naive or based on poor information (in my view) then I will try to look for his/her CV to corroborate. Otherwise it is always the quality of the message.
Wonderful question, @Marcel.
As I wrote some time ago, in my country people just started to exhibit their title of "professor" in every occasion. Professor Monti, professor Draghi, professor left, professor right. We've just hit the point for Professor Berlusconi.
So that, I'm starting by myself to prefix "Professor" even when I talk to the gas station man or the bartender.
"Hey, professor officer, an professor thief has just stolen my bag! — And stay sure, I'm a professor too.."
What does it tell us about situation?
That the trend is twd sweetening concepts and identities.
—g
Is everybody 'professor' in at least one scale of analysis? For instance, every human living being can transmit knowledge that other people don't know?
Can answers and remarks given in RG provide hints about individual education backgrounds without having access to publications and CV's?
Dear K.,
But as you know, the world evolves and is getting wiser perhaps based on past experiences... Anyway, 'practice' (experience with or without a certificate) may ultimately be more important than 'theory' (with a certificate). What were the papers/certificates of the last 10 presidents of the United States?
Degrees are just to screen the CVs and select a few. Otherwise, what is more important is the quality of the personnel, for the job, he or she has applied. Sometimes a lot of degrees do not make a cultured person.
Unfortunately when it comes to employment it is necessary to have a Ph D and considerable publication record. We cannot change that. That will not necessarily tell the quality of the individual.
A certificate at least provides some information about how the work was perceived by others in the past, biased or not.
For the discussion:
Importance of degrees or certificates is probably environment-dependent? We never get degrees to be good parents (allowed) to educate children? Should parents pass an exam before they are allowed to get children?
Children would be our best judges, whether we have been good parents or whether we have educated them well, what say ??
OK, but children do not have degrees to judge....
Why is there a difference in the need to educate with a certificate between own biological children and culturally adopted children in a class room? In both cases there is the information that is transmitted and how it is transmitted....
Computers that transmit information do not have CV's or degrees, or do they?
True, to teach our own children, we don't need a degree because they are our own, we are responsible for their behavior and life and it is a natural instinct to do the best for them. As far as others' children are concerned, they are not our own and biologically not our responsibility. But this responsibility can be forced on us, professionally and then to prove that caliber of being able to teach has to be proved in the form of a degree.
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